One of my favorite parts of my week is Monday mornings when we get together with all the translation and literacy teams that work here (5 language groups) and we pray for each other. What a privilege it is to get to pray for and with these guys who are so incredibly committed to the work God has called them to do.
It also gives me such a glimpse into their worlds. This morning, we had one of the team members who is based in the village with us. He spends most of his time out in the home area, collecting words for the dictionary that they're putting together. Every couple of months, he comes into the center here and types the words into the computer. So far, they have a couple of thousand words in their dictionary, which isn't a bad start!
Anyways, this morning, he was telling us about his 12 year old son who had been tormented by demons for several nights in a row. The demons would scratch him at night while he slept, and he would wake up running, screaming from the mud hut that they live in! Most of the people in his village told him to go see the witch doctor to do something about it. But he's a Christian, and he didn't want to go to the witch doctor. Instead, he called his pastor and some of the elders in his family together, and they prayed for his son.
And the demons left the boy. So this morning he wanted to praise the Lord together with us because he saw that Jesus can defeat even Satan and his evil spirits. He said that Jesus has the victory!
Now that's not a story you hear in our every day prayer meetings back home, is it?
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